Yup, heavy truck and Industrial application engine.
For size comparison, a 429/460 is:
713(429/460 specs from Ford power prducts, all others are rough) pounds and is 34"L, 27"W and 29"H
a 302 is: 460lbs 29"L, 24"W, and 27.5"H
A 351W is: 525lbs, 29"L, 25"W and 29"H
FE's are: 625lbs, 34" long, 32" wide, and 30" high
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86 F250 HD, 4x4/460/T19/44HD/10.25
82 F100/86 F350 4x4 460 with some goodies/T19 D60/welded 10.25/38.5 Boggers, mud racer/wheeling pig...
81 F100/86 F250 HD 4x4, 6.9/T19/D44 TTB junk/10.25. All smoke, no power, turbo no more...
And a couple Brand D's with early "C" power It's not what you BUY, It's what you BUILD
theres a 534 i believe in an old charter bus sitting in the junkyard, it has a holley 4 barrell on it and is HUGE i thought about putting it in my 75 f150 but i decided i could hotrod the 390 a bit more.
I finally got some pictures for you guys!! This is a head off of the 534...at least that is what I was told. I took pictures with a ruler on the heads so you can get an estimate of the sizes. Hope this helps anyone who is interested. Thanks
AJ
Those heads are cool! I'd need a more accurate meaurement, but those valves look about the same diameter as an FE valve, which is 2.02" intake and 1.55" exhaust. It does use the same kind of rocker setup as an FE, being mounted on a shaft, but the shafts are kind of offset. I wonder if the 1.76:1 ratio FE rockers would swap in?
The heads are what I expected, plank design. I didn't expect the funky single intake port though. I wonder how much that thing could be opened up? Might make it like a huge single plane.
The exhaust ports looked a little small IMO. In a truck, that's what you would want though. Still, a little porting never hurts.
Very cool. Looks like an interesting project.
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1970 Ford F100, FE 390
1992 Explorer, 225,000 miles
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I have a 534 Ford Seamaster marine engine that I've run in a boat for many years.
Q1: Does anyone know how far down in the hole the piston is? And how much room for higher compression pistons? I would like raise the compression to maybe 8.75 or 9.0:1 so we can take advantage of the gasolines today. When these were built they were designed to run on 76 octane gas. Todays high octane fuels go out unburned and may cause high exhaust gas temperatures.
Q2: Can anyone tell me what the camshaft specs are for the 534??
These were reputed to have been one of the highest quality and longest lasting marine enignes built in the last 50 years. I know of a Turbocharged 534 that had over 17,000 hours on it without overhaul.
If anyone is looking there are 2 different 534 truck enignes on EBay right now. On is running with low miles for $500.00
Thanks, Regards
534Seamaster
As far a the Exhausts are concerned, I've read that the 534 had sodium filled exhaust valves. This means that the valve head is hollow and has sodium salts inside to pull heat away in an attempt to keep the valve at a reasonable level. Very expensive valves.
Ok, Here's my experience with the 534: Stick with your FE's boys, those 534's loved to chunk iron out of the block when you least expected it. As in they threw rods regularly. We had two of them back in the late 70's in early 60's SD trucks, both had throwed rods, we cut em up for scrap.
I'm kinda curious about these things. Specifically, what are the bore&stroke, compression ratio, head design (plank or wedge), valve sizes, port sizes, basically anything anyone on here can come up with. I figure, the more we know, the more we can modify.
Wouldn't it be great to wake up one of these beasts? I can imagine it now:
Mr. Chevy: Hehe, I've got a 454 BBC in mine.
Mr. 534: Naa, my motor is bigger than yours.
Mr. Chevy: -gasp- What the...!!!
hehe
And........my 534has two t-trim blowers and it's rated at 850 hp and 1250 lbsft of torque.......wanna run 'em for pinks..........hunh do you wanna punk?
Any idea on what kind of power these produced stock??I might be in the market for a very high-power motor in the future, and stumbled across these. Also, how hard are these engines to find?
Any idea on what kind of power these produced stock??I might be in the market for a very high-power motor in the future, and stumbled across these. Also, how hard are these engines to find?
High powered? you're looking in the wrong place. Lotsa stump pulling torque, but not lotsa HP for the street. A stroked 460 would toast it.
Might make it like a huge single plane. 
